The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-06
Under THE NEW LAW.
III. Interstate Commission
in Permanent Quarters
rHE LONG AND SHORT HAUL.
rowin EfFect-HOw the Railroads
view 1.-THE Pass system-No
DifhcGities.
The New Law.

u.saIEGTON, Apru 0.-1ne lHtei
~. commerce commission has
sIactad as permanent quarters the
s ..I aoor of the Sun building.
r o.Io,sI Worthington, general counsel
!OlV III Richmond & DanVille system !;
ig 2.; ~ gbeIman, traffic manager OF the
aAJot Railroad and Banking Com
JIM of Georgia, and Vice-President
PaH!l IF the Louisville & Nashville
26 nitIrs Company appeared this morn
hai- ooch in behalf of his own corpora
! nv" ~ file the necessary formal petit
IONS ions for relief. In each case the pIr-
n 90 nj the petitioners is to secure the
gpT TrT Of the operation OF the long
su L3 short haul features of the law, and
~ or the commission can give hear
;ng on each specific case.
lug Eo M Butterworth, accom-
nonioS hv Captain J. T. Stockdale, OF
tpa pitfsburg & Cincinnati Steamboat
SLe CAPTAIN Gus Hanchett, OF
IN no Bio Sandy & Louisville Mail Line,
and Cantain L. ". Wise, OF the Mem
nbis h Cincinnati Packet Company, APP
poared before the commission as repre-
natives of the river interests.
M ButterWorth, as spokesman OF
tho delegation, addressed the commits
sion, BE maintained that the railroads
were agencies of the government, and
that the powers conferred upon them
we're conferred upon all citizens,
and hence should not be exercised
for the advantage of one class against
another. The present tendency was to
produce great aggregations Of people
large cities-because the corporate
agencies of the government gave special
privileges to favored points, taxing
some localities for the benefit of the
others. It was not for the public good
that this should be So. If one desired
to start factory at an intermediate
point, it could not now be done; not
because the advantages were lacking,
but because the government agencies
would tax, in the way of transportation
charges, for the purpose OF driving out
freight upon the great natural high
ways, the rivers, have no power
Of this kind. They could not torez
stall the markets. If one chose to
charge e1hOrbitsnt rates, another
would enter upon the lines in cOmpeti-
ton. The railroads now asked author-
ity to fZ rates which viii drive the
boats from the rivers. Their charges
we're not fixed in accordance with any
systematic adjustment Of rates, but as
matter Of competition, in which one
party OF the other must 90 under.
There were classes of goods, and always
would be, which would go by rail, irres
pectVe OF rates on competing lines. He
noticed by the reports laid before the
commission by some of the roads that
their through traffic was onlv 20 per
centOt their total traffic. Now what
proportion would they lose if com
PEELED 10 adopt uniform rates?
IN MS opinion. it would be in
considerable. Touching the local
trade, one man VIII use shipments were
out nall carload, was compelled to
pay iouth class rates, while the larger
shipper OF the same sort of material,
shipping hundreds of carloads, was
gwen rates OF the fifth class, and
!eapeO advantages from this discrimi-
aauon which had tendency to crush
Gut the small shipper. In his opinion,
II was ths purpose of the law to pre-
vent these examinations which foster
s!saI a2g-egstions, and tend to the
PISC93t o. Of Gullivers and Pigmies.
III Sn;'a Vice President of the Louis
" ,i4g Nashville Railroad, said, SO far
~ lne southern Association was con-
fEeIned, there was no discrimination in
t tS Of large cities. The managers of
t :ne ia. [laliroads recognized that it was not
al. ~, 'tlelE interests to centralize business
Geo Geo. K. Blanchard, chairman of the
o zen Traffic Association, appeared
SaS ADDRESSED the commission briefly in
f 4eaah Of the Michigan railroads setting
. III me circumstances which led to
- r.' - eEsIaohshment of lower through
~ IRON, rom Milwaukee across the lake
"a AZ -o eoan could be given for local traffic
o. o. reason Of all mail comnetit i n via
caLeago. These roads asked pe eITs H1n
60 MAJ, MAINTAIN local rates, irrespective Of
y rough rates, until such time es az the he
, roln4iilSslon shall be able to take the
p ,5 circumstances and sitnation
mo consideration. W i'u"''0n